FEMA: IN CASE OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSION

"A nuclear explosion may occur with or without a few minutes warning," reads the page, which was updated on Friday. "Fallout is most dangerous in the first few hours after the detonation when it is giving off the highest levels of radiation. It takes time for fallout to arrive back to ground level, often more than 15 minutes for areas outside of the immediate blast damage zones.
   FEMA recommends the following steps to prevent 'significant radiation exposure,' which include "Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household," and "If possible, wear a mask if you're sheltering with people who are not part of your household."

   What's more, "If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 9-1-1 and let the operator know if you have, or think you might have, Covid-19. If you can, put on a mask before help arrives."
   "Many people already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of nuclear explosion can add additional stress."

TRACKING RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

Talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials began on the Belarusian border on Monday, Moscow said, as Russia's diplomatic and economic isolation deepens four days after invading Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began Thursday morning with attacks by land, sea and air in what was immediately the largest military assault by one European state on another since World War Two. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation.”

Western intelligence sources say Russian forces have encountered far stronger Ukrainian resistance than they had expected and this was significantly slowing their advances since their invasion began.

EXCLUDING PUTIN FROM GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Millions of times a day, bankers key a unique 11-digit code into their computers, instantly sending encrypted instructions to their counterparts across the globe to complete a financial transaction.

Financial institutions and entire economies have come to rely on the co-operative network with a cumbersome full name —  Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. Better known as SWIFT, it is part of the fabric of the global financial system, processing more than 40 million messages per day between 11,000 institutions.

 Now, excluding Russia from the network is being advocated as the West’s financial “nuclear option” in its attempt to push back against Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine.

KEEPING AN EYE ON OUR OWN LEADERS

Neil Oliver: Whatever Putin is up to in the Ukraine, the west must accept its share of the blame.

VANIER CHURCH SUPPORTED FREEDOM CONVOY, NEIGHBOURS NOT AMUSED

The Capital City Bikers Church has become a flashpoint of controversy in its Vanier neighbourhood in recent weeks because it staunchly supported “Freedom Convoy” participants, offering them hot meals, a place to warm up and moral support.

Some Vanier residents who disapproved of the nearby presence of protesters earlier this month posted pro-vaccine and anti-Convoy signs on a fence near the church. Last week the church received a more menacing sign on red paper that read: “A nest of Nazis. Burn it out.”

Pastor Rob McKee declined to comment about his church’s support for the convoy, but, on his personal Instagram account, he posted a photo of the threatening sign and wrote: “When you continue to open your doors to anyone in need. I guess some people will never like what you are doing.”

FREEZING OF ACCOUNTS IS LIBERAL VENGEANCE

   Remember on Wednesday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was revoking the Emergencies Act? So how come his government is still holding onto the bank accounts, credit cards, retirement investments and mortgages of hundreds of Canadians who participated in or donated money to the Freedom Convoy?
   By the time you read this column, perhaps the Trudeau government will have permitted banks, pension funds, insurance companies, mortgage brokers and other financial institutions to release the accounts of protestors and Freedom Convoy donors that were frozen after the Liberals invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14.
    But as I am writing this – about 48 hours after the prime minister ended his emergency degree – the bank accounts, credit cards and loans of Canadian workers and businesses connected with the convoy were still under government lock and key.

UKRAINE UPDATES

• Western allies announced sweeping sanctions against Russia, including barring some key banks from the SWIFT payments system. The move will inflict a crippling economic blow to Moscow but also hurt Western companies and banks.
• Russian military vehicles pushed into Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Sunday, on a fourth day of fighting in the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two.
• Russia has attacked Ukrainian oil and gas facilities, sparking huge explosions. President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy said Ukrainian forces were holding off Russian troops advancing on the capital Kyiv.

EXPOSING MEDIA FAKE NEWS

Candice Malcolm:  It has been almost one week since the trucks left Ottawa and Justin Trudeau’s fake emergency concluded, but the media isn’t finished trying to smear the Canadians that peacefully protested Justin Trudeau’s mandates.

This week. the media highlighted anti-trucker voices to mislead Canadians into thinking the convoy was an “occupation,” journalists obsess over an outspoken character to smear the entire movement and legacy media elites call the protesters “anti-social yobs” and “half-wits.”

HOW'S THAT NET-ZERO POLICY WORKING FOR YOU?

 In 2009, the Russian gas company Gazprom temporarily cut off exports to Europe. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, like Nord Stream 1, takes the most direct route from Siberia to Europe, bypassing Ukraine. Credit the Biden administration for helping German chancellor Olaf Scholz over the line in suspending Nord Stream 2 – but if Moscow controls Ukraine, Putin will have solved his Ukrainian transit problem by extinguishing Ukrainian independence. On the other hand, Germany’s and the EU’s net-zero policies will deepen their dependence on Putin’s goodwill as they increase their exposure to unreliable wind and solar, phase out coal, and – in the case of Germany and Belgium – prematurely close their nuclear power stations. Strategically, that’s a win for Putin.

INFANTILIZATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE

   A February 25 tweet from National Public Radio purported to address how Americans should deal with traumatizing headlines about the ongoing war in Ukraine. NPR noted, "Russia’s attack on Ukraine means there’s a stressful news cycle ahead of us. The reality of conflict is always a shock to the system.” Patriotic Ukrainian citizens are dying in the streets defending their families and their nation against an overwhelming Russian invasion of their land and we have to deal with a “stressful news cycle”?!
   Embarrassing. 

   Sickeningly, there was more. The article, from NPR's so-called "Life Kit," offered several helpful suggestions for the self-care of those sitting at home reading about the dangers brave Ukrainians were facing.

ONTARIO JUDGE RULING AGAINST COVID JABS FOR CHILDREN

In a sharply worded ruling about the pandemic’s effect on society, an Ontario judge has shut down a father’s attempt to force his ex-wife to get their two children unwillingly vaccinated against COVID-19.

In the end, Pazaratz ruled that the father’s motion was dismissed and that C.G. should “have sole decision-making authority with respect to the issue of administering COVID vaccines for the children.”

“Her current concerns about the vaccines are entirely understandable, given the credible warnings and commentary provided by reputable sources who are specifically acquainted with the issue,” wrote Pazaratz.

FREEDOM TODAY EXISTS ONLY AMONG DISSIDENTS

The vaccine has failed spectacularly at stopping transmission, which is to say, it is not working at all as advertised. But cynical liberal demagogues and their fanatical followers have ignored the data to wage a warrantless campaign of political persecution. For them, punishment is the point of the vaccine mandates.

These people are criminals. The harm they have done to society is incalculable. In other times, rulers who behaved this abusively would have faced violent resistance.

Our elites certainly know this, which is why they have worked to make Western man into a domesticated animal. Indeed, the majority of citizens in the “free world” have more or less behaved like frightened, docile cattle throughout the pandemic. The cowardice of Western “man” is what made the bravery of the Canadian truckers so startling, so surprising. Unlike the BLM rioters of 2020, who were bailed out by liberal oligarchs and the state, they have incurred heavy costs for their courageous actions. They have shown that there are still noble souls out there who love freedom enough to demand it at any price. And for that the Trudeau regime is going to make them pay.

FREEDOM WORTH HONKING FOR

 There are so many people to thank right now. Thank you to the truckers, first of all. Thank you to the donors to the convoy, to the parents who brought their kids to the bouncy castles in the cold of winter, to the thousands who danced in the streets with their flags, to the men and women who lived and slept in their trucks unbowed, to the protestors who stared right into the face of tyranny on the streets adjacent to our parliament, to those who brought food to the hungry and walked the boulevards with jerry cans, to those who testified in video, in real time as to what was really happening on the ground and stood in Ottawa on behalf of us all, I salute you.

EXPLAINING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS

The story of the Ukraine-Russia crisis does not begin in 2021, or 2014, It begins in the 9th century.

There was a time when the two countries were one.

 

PUTIN & HIS CRONIES NEED TO BE CRUSHED

 Ukraine deserves to be provided with all the aid and materiel necessary to wage what will surely be a long and bloody guerrilla resistance. The government and the people of Ukraine should be given every assistance they request.

Vladimir Putin and all his generals and his cronies need to be crushed. They need to be finished. They need to be brought to an end. Every last one of his oligarchs need to be hunted and hounded to the ends of the earth, their billions of dollars’ worth of holdings in real estate and mining and every other industry and bolthole from Chelsea to Toronto should be frozen, seized and expropriated.

WHY SO MANY TRUCKERS LEAVE THE INDUSTRY

Trucking companies paint unrealistic pictures of the industry, and that's why drivers want to quit.

New drivers think they're automatically going to make a ton of money straight away. But that isn't the case.

We can only drive for 11 hours a day, and we don't get paid for all the hours we work, either. It's typical to spend two or three hours waiting at a shipper or receiver, where we're stuck in our trucks and often aren't allowed to use the site's bathrooms. Because we're not usually paid based on time, we don't get any money for the wait.

INSURRECTION INTERRUPTUS

   Rex Murphy: The government conceived of the “Bouncy Castles Revolt,” as the insurrection will be known in future histories, as a perfect cauldron of hate. Justin Trudeau, on Feb. 1, recorded in a tweet that, “Today in the House, Members of Parliament unanimously condemned the antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia that we’ve seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days.”
   That’s a whole lot of phobias, almost the entire basket, for even a large convoy. And diversified by antisemitism and racism, by the judgment of the prime minister and his cabinet seneschals, it was probably the most threatening congregation of civic vice this country has ever known. It was to the deep thinkers in Ottawa almost an anti-Woodstock. (Minus the folk singers, which was a good thing.)

   Of course even as this juggernaut of hate was barreling across the country, the House of Commons was in recess. Which has been its abiding state these past two years. The Parliament of Canada has become somewhat “optional” these days, a kind of token add-on. Something not essential to the functioning of our democracy, but there just for the odd touch of comfort, or as an intermittent luxury.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG

 OTTAWA  — The judge who kept Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich in jail is a former Liberal Party candidate whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has praised in the past.

The judge who denied Lich bail after being arrested as part of the Emergencies Act crackdown, Julie Bourgeois, ran as a Liberal Party candidate in 2011.

A video resurfaced of Trudeau, at the time of her campaign just a Member of Parliament (MP), praising Bourgeois for “her vision, her authenticity, her strength.”

SUING THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT

 The federal cabinet has revoked the proclamation of a public order emergency, as Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday. But the prime minister will still need to answer in court for his illegal and unconstitutional decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.

On Feb. 23, the Canadian Constitution Foundation filed an urgent application for judicial review of the government’s decision to invoke this extraordinary piece of legislation. This application will still proceed because it is imperative this legislation receive scrutiny the first time it is used, especially when the circumstances of its use are so questionable.

TRUDEAU ADMITS FAKE EMERGENCY IS OVER

  Candice Malcolm:  There was never an emergency that warranted the use of the Emergencies Act. Trudeau just admitted that by revoking the order less than two days after it was approved.

BC GOV'T DOUBLING DOWN ON COVID JAB REFUSERS

   It’s a week of reckoning in British Columbia as hundreds of health-care workers and public employees are now being terminated after being forced onto unpaid leave last year by provincial COVID vaccine mandates.
   The firings in B.C. come even as provinces across Canada continue to drop COVID restrictions, including Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, who announced today that their vaccine passport programs would end this month.
   These firings also come as B.C. hospitals face staggering labour shortages.
  Health minister Adrian Dix has admitted that one week in January saw 27,937 shifts unfilled.

GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA: A FOREIGN SERVICE GONE WOKE

Documents obtained by True North from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) reveal a woke foreign service obsessed with microaggressions, race and “ambient bigotry.”

The bulk of the release is a report by “diversity and inclusion expert” Dr. Anita Jack-Davies of MOSAIC Cross-Cultural Solutions.

In a presentation on the survey, Jack-Davies observed that the “workplace culture is not good. It’s a culture that demands self-reliance.”

Staff also complained that the training relied too much on merit and experience instead of hiring people based on their race or whether they belonged to a so-called disadvantaged group or not.

CANADA HAS BECOME A STANDING JOKE

What’s the difference between Canada and North Korea?

One country is a police state under the boot of a young tyrant scion of his father’s dynasty who brutally crushes opponents, free speech, and liberty, and the other is a country in Asia.

As things have developed, Canada has, in the idiomatic sense, become a joke, that is, a bad one, in effect, a joke that is not a joke. In other words, we never expected the unexpected, a liberal democracy transformed almost overnight into a fascist dictatorship, a travesty of a former assumption.

TRUCKERS' CONVOY TO DC HITS THE ROAD

Inspired by the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada, American truckers have organized their own nationwide “Convoy to DC” in protest of the Biden regime’s authoritarian COVID policies.

Truckers gathered in San Bernardino County, California, Wednesday, to launch their “People’s Convoy” cross country road trip to Washington D.C. to demand an end to the declaration of national emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, and the restoration of our Constitution.

PUTIN & HIS CRONIES MUST BE CRUSHED

What “it” is now, then, is not the threat of war, and not the imaginary diplomatic conundrum of how to address Russia’s “legitimate security concerns” while at the same time “keeping the door open” to Ukraine’s accession to NATO. What it is now is the full-scale invasion of a democratic European country by a gangland oligarchy that has been allowed to strangle Russian democracy and murder and jail opposition leaders, and is now securely bivouacked in the Kremlin.

What “it” is now is a war in Europe waged by a decrepit nuclear-armed state with veto power on the United Nations Security Council. What is happening now is the bloody imperialist conquest of a European democracy, a country of more than 40 million people, a country immensely rich in culture and resources, a country larger than France.

MEDIA LAPDOGS HAVE DONE TRUDEAU PROUD

It has been an extremely busy few days for Canada’s legacy media.

Concerned with paying the piper Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his generous media bailouts by sticking to the supreme dictator’s talking points, they played their parts very well.

They doxxed and harassed donors to the Freedom Convoy contained on lists hacked from GiveSendGo. They remained obsessive in their portrayal of the protesters as white supremacists, anti-semites and racists engaged in an “occupation.”

Damn the truth, they said.

FREEZE ORDER LIFTED ON BANK ACCOUNTS

OTTAWA—The federal government says the RCMP are working with financial institutions to “unfreeze” bank accounts locked by emergency orders that targeted people who organized, participated in, or donated to the so-called Freedom Convoy blockades.

Isabelle Jacques, assistant deputy minister of finance, told a Commons standing committee Tuesday that the RCMP began “sharing information” — related to the end of “unlawful” blockades — with banks and financial institutions as of Monday that should lead to affected accounts being “unfrozen.”

However, Jacques said some bank account holders may still be subject to other court orders freezing their assets.

RUSSIA ATTACKS UKRAINE

KYIV, UKRAINE -- NATO's secretary-general says Russia has launched war on Ukraine and shattered peace on the European continent.

Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling. Ukraine's government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border and accused Moscow of unleashing a "full-scale war."

THE WORLD LAUGHS AT TRUDEAU

 Less than 24 hours after the vote on the Emergencies Act, Trudeau was denouncing Russian aggression towards Ukraine. That’s the right thing to do, Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian thug, a man who appears hell bent on starting a war by invading Ukraine.

But as is often the case, Trudeau went for a dramatic flourish that he didn’t need and shone the spotlight on his own actions.

“Canada, and our allies, will defend democracy,” Trudeau said, as he announced sanctions and other actions against Russia. “We are taking these actions today, to stand against authoritarianism.”

BRINGING THE HAMMER DOWN WHEN IT COUNTS

Rex Murphy: These are trying times. Canada on the brink. Luckily the times have found the man.

Actually, they have found the two men.

Justin Trudeau alone could not have wrapped the great security blanket around all 38 million Canadian citizens if he could not have found a partner, one as stern and steely-eyed as himself. Another warrior-politician to stand up against the forces of chaos and rebellion that have threatened the actual existence of Canada over these past horrendous three weeks with their parked trucks, nightly barbecues, sing-a-longs and Hitler-coded Honk Honks.

THE DAUPHIN REVOKES EMERGENCIES ACT

 OTTAWA — Controversial emergency measures invoked by the Trudeau Liberals last week have been revoked.

Critics and opposition leaders criticized the measures, particularly those meant to target money and bank accounts allegedly connected to those who either organized or took part in the weeks of protests.

A statement from Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the province would follow suit and lift its state of emergency. The premier’s office said “emergency tools” provided to law enforcement will stay in place for now to address ongoing activities.

COCKWOMBLE HAS BROUGHT CANADIANS TO THE TIPPING POINT

 Just walk or drive through cities and villages and the countryside, and see the Canadian flags — paired with signs expressing vehement disapproval of our federal government. Loyal Canadians are fed up with their federal government.

And one person is responsible for this — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

He has drastically altered Canadian institutions and norms so considerably that usually calm people are raising their voices in protest.

SENATORS FEEL PRESSURED TO RUBBER STAMP EMERGENCIES ACT

 The House of Commons voted on Monday night to extend the emergency measures that have been in place since last week. The NDP voted with the Liberals, arguing that it was a confidence vote and now was not the time to plunge the country into an election.

But that trick likely won’t work with Senators, who are growing increasingly frustrated that they feel forced to rubber stamp government legislation.

Many of them wanted to know on what basis the government decided to invoke the Emergencies Act in the first place. That information has not been made available to Parliament, most notably ongoing investigations and intelligence information.

JUDGE AFFIRMS CHINESE AGENCY INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE

   The Chinese government’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO) is involved in espionage that harms Canada’s interests, a Federal Court judge has affirmed in what appears to be a precedent-setting new ruling.

Beijing critics say the judgement — upholding an immigration officer’s decision on the issue as “reasonable” — represents a rare official rebuke of the office, now a bureau of a larger Communist Party department.

Despite its apparently longstanding efforts to influence and monitor Chinese Canadians, the agency has rarely been publicly called-out by authorities here, says Charles Burton, a former diplomat in Beijing and senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

SEDITIOUS T-SHIRTS

 SARNIA – MP Marilyn Gladu says she’s “bound by confidentiality” to not identify a constituent she claimed on social media had her bank account frozen for buying a $20 “Freedom Convoy” T-shirt.

TRUDEAU A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to maintain that not only was the invocation of the Emergencies Act required last week but that the extraordinary powers it grants the government are still required now. That’s not a position I agree with.

The clearing of the streets in Ottawa and securing safe travel at border crossings were both accomplished without the powers extended with the vote on Monday night. One refrain we heard several times in the debate on the vote is how we ever got to this point.

There was no need for the Emergencies Act to be invoked and there is no need for it to continue now. This is Trudeau showing up a day late and a dollar short and then overreacting to show he cares and is doing something.

CDC WITHHELD CRITICAL COVID INFORMATION

According to a new report by the New York Times, the CDC has also been collecting much more detailed data about Covid infections that breaks down by age, race, and vaccination status. The critical information would go a long way towards figuring out an end to the pandemic, but the agency has purposefully suppressed the information from the public over fears that it would be “misinterpreted” and cause “vaccine hesitancy.”

In other words, the ‘experts’ in the US public health regime believe the plebs aren’t capable enough to interpret something themselves.

CANADA'S INCREASINGLY AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENT

   Preston Manning: In Canada, only time will tell where the federal government’s heavy-handed over-reaction to the Freedom Convoy will lead, what new leadership it may generate and how Canadians will respond to the threats which that over-reaction poses to Canadian democracy.

Threats to Canadian democracy do exist and the COVID crisis has brought them to the fore. But our democracy is threatened, not from without, but from within by an increasingly autocratic government in the process of taking “a step too far.”

HER PENIS

  A fabulous example of doublethink was published this week. The Daily Record claimed a ‘Scot flashed her penis and used sex toy in public leaving onlookers shocked’. The pronoun ‘her’ was eventually removed from the headline, after much justified ridicule on social media.
   But the details of the story are serious. A sex offender had been found to have ‘pleasured himself’ in view of an unwilling audience, including children. Witnesses agreed that the person they saw was ‘a male’, with one describing him as wearing ‘an ill-fitting black wig, a ra-ra skirt and a midriff-length top’.
   The Glasgow-born male, who goes by the name of Chloe Thompson, has 17 convictions for 22 offences and was still under a suspended-sentence order at the time of this incident. In 2011, when he was known as Andrew McNab, he sexually assaulted an underage person and was put on the Sex Offenders Register. But today, thanks to the tireless work of transgender-lobby groups like Stonewall, the likes of Chloe, if sentenced to prison, could be incarcerated in a women’s prison. What could possibly go wrong?

NDP & LIBERALS VOTE TO MAINTAIN THE POWER GRAB

 OTTAWA — The House of Commons on Monday night approved the extraordinary and temporary measures in the Emergencies Act, heeding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s warning that the “state of emergency is not over,” even though police ended a three-week occupation in Ottawa and reopened border points to the U.S.

The motion to confirm the declaration of emergency passed 185-151, with the New Democrats voting in favour alongside the minority Liberal government.

The vote to approve the measures will keep them in place until mid-March at the latest and the Senate must also vote on the government’s request.

At any point, the Senate, House or government could pull support and the extraordinary powers stemming from the emergencies law would be torn up.

THE NEXT STEP FOR THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Astra-Zeneca were actively lobbying governments to buy their vaccines as early as February 2020, supposedly less than a month after the genetic sequence (or partial sequence) was made available by China.

As a person who spent his whole professional career in pharmaceutical and vaccine development, I found the whole concept of going from scratch to a ready-to-use vaccine in a few months simply preposterous.

Something did not add up.

SNEAKY LIBERALS

In order to stop what the Trudeau regime referred to as “illegal blockades,” the government threatened to freeze the bank accounts of demonstrators and anyone who donated money to them.
   Under the Emergencies Act, bank are required to freeze accounts without a court order, while all crowdfunding platforms and payment providers are mandated to provide information to FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada).

   Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that many of the measures imposed ‘temporarily’ to deal with the protesters (after they had been suitably demonized as violent extremists) will now become permanent.

FEARING RUIN FOR DONATION TO A CAUSE PM DISLIKES

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that the emergency law allows banks to close accounts of donors to the GoFundMe and the GiveSend Go campaigns that have helped to fund these protests. That is clearly government over-reach and should outrage every freedom-loving Canadian. No ifs or buts.

GiveSendGo, was hacked and the information of the donors was doxxed, including by Gerald Butts, the prime minister’s former principal secretary who resigned in disgrace on Feb. 18, 2019, during the SNC-Lavalin scandal. The federal government never wanted to follow the money behind that scandal.

For Canadians to be afraid of their federal government because they donated to a cause that the PM disagrees with is simply something no citizen in a democracy should ever have to contemplate, let alone face.

THE PETULANT THIN-SKINNED TYRANT

  Trudeau—or, as the great Sarah Hoyt denominates him, “Trudescu” or “Castreau”—initially responded to Canada’s “Revolt of the Masses,” a.k.a. the truckers’ Freedom Convoy, by skedaddling out of town and cowering in some presumably secure and definitely unidentified place.
   A couple of days later, Trudeau popped his head up over the top of the fox hole and nothing happened. So he climbed out, shook his soft and tiny fists, and plumped his hairdo. “I’m in charge here,” he shouted, and the truckers nodded and kept dancing and singing their songs about peace, love, and freedom. They also kept blocking little Justin’s roadways. This made him very angry. He couldn’t drop those thousands of truckers and their many supporters, children, and pets, into a tank full of piranhas, as he remembered someone he admired once doing. So he invoked the Emergencies Act, a law framed in the 1980s to provide the government of Canada with extraordinary powers to deal with extraordinary situations: wars, invasions, massive terrorist attacks, that sort of thing.

    Trudeau is the first prime minister to invoke that law. That must have put mousse in his coiffure. At last he was first.

REQUIEM FOR A NATION

It may seem hard to believe that America’s neighbor to the north is now a full-fledged, up-and-running police state. Heavily-armed police are arresting and, in some cases, roughing up, severely beating, and trampling with horses members of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy in Ottawa as well as bystanders. The country has gone off the rails.

Justin Trudeau’s ineffable Justice Minister David Lametti is on record threatening those who hold the wrong political views that they are liable to have their bank accounts seized. “If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars, and millions of dollars to this kind of thing,” he said, “then you ought to be worried.” The assumption that Trump has something to do with Canadian trucker donations seems particularly unhinged.

DAY 28 OF TRUCKERS FOR FREEDOM CONVOY

On Day 28 of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy, police shot a journalist with a gas canister, protesters on Wellington Street were driven back and demonstrators remained defiant in cities across the country.

Police resumed aggressively herding protesters off of Wellington Street today. Tensions remained extremely high as the line of officers advanced in front of the protesters at the foot of Canada’s Parliament Buildings.

Freedom Convoy co-organizer Tom Marazzo held a press conference on Saturday where he called for protesters to make a peaceful withdrawal from Ottawa.

“There isn’t anything to be gained by being brutalized by police,” Marazzo said.

CHARLIE ANGUS; SUCKING & BLOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY

 Federal New Democrats have announced they will support the Trudeau government’s decision to trigger the Emergencies Act to restore order in the nation’s capital after nearly three weeks of protests that have occupied and snarled the areas around Parliament Hill. But the move is not going over well with some longtime party supporters.

Angus, first elected as an NDP MP for the northeastern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay in 2004, said he remains “very, very concerned” about the first-time use of the Emergencies Act and is asking for an independent inquiry to find out how it came to this.

The longtime social activist said he has organized protests his “whole life”, but said the the situation in Ottawa has been a “debacle” and that he remains “dumbfounded by the lack of the most basic rules of public enforcement” at all levels of government.

PEOPLE OUGHT NOT TO FEAR THE POWER OF GOV'T

 Neil Oliver:  Justin Trudeau is looking increasingly like a wax-work dummy left too close to a radiator.

TRUDEAU'S WILD MISUSE OF STATE AUTHORITY

   Rex Murphy: Just listen to this crowd. “If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars, and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, then you ought to be worried.” That’s Canada’s Attorney General, David Lametti. Making an offer Canadians can’t refuse.
   What is he thinking? Are there Brinks trucks trundling up Parliament Hill? “Hundreds of thousands of dollars, and millions of dollars to this kind of thing?”
   Might there not be a few “non-Trumpians” making donations? Canadians even, who threw in a $20 bill to back their fellow workers? I guess they “ought to be worried,” too. This latter is the language of pure threat and intimidation by state power. And this crowd laughably claims we’re still being protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

ALBERTA TO CHALLENGE LIBERALS' USE OF EMERGENCIES ACT

   Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the province will be challenging the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act in court.
  On Saturday, the premier said that invoking the Act violates "natural justice" and is "unnecessary."
"The federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act is an unnecessary and disproportionate measure that can violate civil liberties, invades provincial jurisdiction, and creates a very dangerous precedent for the future," Kenney said in a video posted to social media.
"It's not necessary," he added. "Provincial law enforcement agencies are able to deal with illegal road blockades.

NOVA SCOTIA SHOOTER INQUIRY TOO SECRETIVE

And as the proceedings open Tuesday in Halifax, the three presiding commissioners will be facing skeptical participants, lawyers and experts who have come forward in recent weeks to criticize the inquiry for being too secretive and unclear about how it will function.

"The public and those most affected by the (killings) have been looking for answers for nearly two years, but have been either kept in the dark or misled by the RCMP and governments," said Nova Scotia lawyer Adam Rodgers, who has been offering analysis of the inquiry through an online blog.

"They fought hard for an inquiry that would provide those answers, yet so far that inquiry has only featured delays and secret meetings."

TRUCKERS' REVOLT EXPOSES LEFT'S CLASS HATRED

This week, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, for the first time in the law’s history, allowing banks to freeze the accounts of anyone associated with the protests with no need for court orders. Deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland added that the government was expanding rules on ‘terrorist financing’ to cover cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding sites. The vehicle insurance of anyone involved in the protests can also now be suspended, and police have been given new powers to imprison or fine protesters.

As disruptive as some of the truckers’ tactics are – the point of protest, after all, is to cause disruption – this is a remarkably authoritarian move, made by a ‘liberal’ prime minister desperately trying to defend his authoritarian Covid policies. Since then, outcry from the international liberal set has been conspicuous by its absence. Perhaps it isn’t authoritarianism when photogenic centrists do it.

BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES UP 36%

Businesses experienced a sharp increase in bankruptcies in the last quarter of 2021 according to the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP).

Insolvencies were up by 36.8% across the board during last year’s fourth quarter, marking a 35-year high. The brunt of the damage was caused by closures in the food, accommodation and construction industries.

“After nearly two years of record-low business insolvencies, the persistent uncertainty caused by the COVID situation is now forcing difficult decisions from Canadian business owners who are operating in the face of increased costs, supply chain issues and a tapering of pandemic-related government support,” said Jean-Daniel Breton, Chair of CAIRP in a news release.

OTTAWA POLICE THREATEN TO ARREST MEDIA

Civil liberties and legal rights groups are expressing outrage after Ottawa Police threatened members of the media with arrest for reporting on the ongoing crackdown of peaceful protesters calling for an end to COVID-19 mandates.

On Friday, the official Ottawa Police Twitter account warned that media attending the protest zone would be “subject to arrest.”

“All media who are attending the area, please keep a distance and stay out of police operations for your safety. Anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement may be subject to arrest,” tweeted Ottawa Police.

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT BC PIPELINE SITE

 Violence has erupted at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site in Northern B.C., leaving workers shaken and millions of dollars in damage.

Very early Thursday, just after midnight, Coastal GasLink security called RCMP for help, reporting it was under attack by about 20 people, some wielding axes.

“In one of the most concerning acts, an attempt was made to set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside,” said the company in a statement. “The attackers also wielded axes, swinging them at vehicles and through a truck’s window. Flare guns were also fired at workers.”

TRUDEAU FANS THE FLAMES

Justin Trudeau accused the opposition of standing with "people who wave swastikas". Jewish lawmaker Melissa Lantsman has demanded an apology. A prominent Hindu group said Trudeau's "misrepresentation" will lead to hate crimes against Hindus.

OTTAWA PROTESTORS ARRESTED, VEHICLES TOWED

 OTTAWA — Police officers descended on anti-government protesters in Ottawa on Friday, arresting at least 100 people and towing more than 20 vehicles in a push to end a three-week occupation that has reverberated across Canada and around the world.

Supported by officers on horseback and on rooftops, lines of police slowly advanced on an intersection just east of Parliament Hill, isolating one group of protesters.

Police blasted warnings over a loudspeaker before officers advanced intermittently, forcing back dozens of demonstrators, some of whom linked arms or laid down in resistance while others hurled insults or tried to flee.

POLICE HORSES TRAMPLE OTTAWA PROTESTORS

Turns out the lasting image of the Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill will not be bouncy castles but that of a woman with a walker being trampled by a police horse.

 The violence the Prime Minister has expressed concern about during the three-week protest in Ottawa didn’t unfold until Justin Trudeau’s Emergencies Act police army was sent in to disperse the crowd.

No matter how it’s spun at the end of the day, a majority of these protesters merely didn’t want to take a vaccine, parked illegally, honked their horns and disobeyed Trudeau. It’s not enough to hurt them.

This was not ISIS out there. It was Canadians with charter rights. But the rhetoric was revved up by Trudeau as if it was a terror cell putting Canada’s democracy at risk.

TRUDEAU A MOST EGREGIOUS, POLARIZING AGENT

   Rex Murphy: This is the most monumentally stupid, monumentally arrogant, and monumentally misguided decision by a prime minister since 1867.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his sophomoric musings on the nature of Canada some years back, famously declared that Canada has “no core identity,” most of us thought he was stating his opinion, however ridiculous, of the country as he saw it at the time.

We were wrong, ever so wrong. He was stating an ambition. He was declaring a goal.

After six years of the most amateur government this country has ever suffered, with the invocation of the most crushing legislation any government can call upon, the Emergencies Act, to attack and subdue a group of ordinary Canadian workers, he’s well on the way to achieving his “post-national” ambitions.

PM KIM JONG TRUDEAU

  Bill Whittle:  As Canadian Prime Minister 'Kim Jong' Justin Trudeau assumes extraordinary emergency powers to shut down the truckers' vaccine protest convoy, USA truckers plan a freedom convoy of their own.

BREAKING UP THE FREEDOM CONVOY IN OTTAWA

 Ottawa is holding its collective breath as police appear ready to finally end the so called Freedom Convoy protest that has paralyzed a good chunk of the capital city's downtown core for the past three weeks.

With significantly bolstered ranks municipal, provincial and national police officers have established a perimeter with about 100 checkpoints covering Ottawa's downtown to keep out anyone intent on joining the protest this weekend.

They have also arrested a number people, including two organizers of the protest against COVID-19 public health measures. Tamara Lich was in custody Thursday night charged with counselling to commit mischief, while Chris Barber was also facing that charge along with charges of obstruction and counselling to commit obstruction.

LIBERALS' OCCASIONAL HARDLINE

 Licia Corbella: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government says it wants to “follow the money” behind the anti-vaccine mandate trucker protest movement, particularly the foreign money financing the illegal blockades.
  However, instead of using extraordinary emergency powers to look into the obvious money laundering taking place in Vancouver and Toronto, Trudeau wants to go after truckers he calls racists, misogynists and a whole list of other “ists” because they don’t want to get vaccinated and because they’re not the type of people who vote for him. His divisive rhetoric and unscientific COVID-19 measures (bringing in the cross-border trucker vaccine mandate on Jan. 15, for instance, even as the rest of the world was lifting theirs based on science) is what caused this mess to begin with.
  As mentioned in my Tuesday column, foreign money directed to third parties has skewed election results in favour of the federal Liberals since at least 2015. Yves Cote, commissioner of Elections Canada, says it’s a problem. So does CSIS. But little if anything is ever done about these serious issues.

LEGAL CHALLENGES FILED AGAINST TRUDEAU'S INVOCATION OF EMERGENCIES ACT

As police cordoned off downtown Ottawa as they prepare to clear a weeks-long occupation surrounding Parliament Hill, two separate legal challenges were filed against the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Both the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) and Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) filed their challenges on Thursday, accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of setting a dangerous precedent by invoking the act for reasons they say fall far short of legal thresholds.

“The government emergency declaration is unprecedented and seriously infringes the charter rights of Canadians,” said CCLA Executive Director Noa Mendelsohn Aviv in a Thursday afternoon press conference.

TYRANNY ARRIVES IN CANADA

The War Measures Act has been deployed only twice in the modern history of Canada, and both times by the same left-wing family dynasty. Pierre Trudeau invoked it during the 1970 “October Crisis” in response to the Front de Libération du Québéc’s (FLQ) campaign of public mayhem, and now by the son in response to a legitimate protest against the government’s draconian Covid measures and mandates that have crippled the country. In neither case was a war footing necessary. In the first instance, as many believe, police had all the tools needed to track down and arrest the insurrectionists; a military presence was unnecessary. In the second, the willingness to meet with the truckers, to engage in dialogue, and to consider relaxing the Covid restrictions, as is now occurring in many countries and states around the world, would have been sufficient to defuse the situation. The current national disruption is mainly due to the prime minister’s impolitic intransigence.

CANADA CANCELLED DEMOCRACY LAST NIGHT

‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host argues Canadian prime minister is combatting trucker protests through ‘tyranny.

PM & LAURENTIAN ELITE ARE WHAT AILS CANADA

   Diane Francis:  The “Freedom Convoy” isn’t a Canadian “problem.” The prime minister and Canada’s Laurentian elite are.

The protests have inconvenienced many, but they have exposed what ails the country. It’s governed by a party that won only 32.6 per cent of the popular vote, with a public badly divided among five other parties. The Liberals have dominated politics for decades, backed by the well-heeled establishment in Montreal, Ottawa and Bay Street whose careers, incomes and businesses are linked to the party and who disdain rural and Western Canada. Such attitudes led to Justin Trudeau’s rebuff to the truckers when he pledged that “we won’t give in.”

INCREASING SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE'S PARTY OF CANADA

 On the latest episode of Trend Line, Nanos Research's Nik Nanos said that the percentage of Canadians polled who would consider voting for the People's Party of Canada (PPC) usually sits at around 10 per cent. But as of Feb. 16, that number has gone up to 16 per cent, which Nanos calls a "material increase."

WANTING QUARANTINE EXEMPTION FOR CROSS-BORDER TRUCKERS

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe joined forces with multiple U.S. governors on Wednesday calling on the federal government to bring back a vaccine and quarantine exemption for cross-border truckers.

In a letter addressed to Prime Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden, the premiers and governors say they understand the importance of COVID-19 vaccines and continue to urge eligible people to get vaccinated. They also claimed that the restrictions have negatively impacted residents in Canada and the U.S. by driving up inflation and the cost of living.

The letter is signed by governors in Montana, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming – all historically Republican states.

PM IN FULL DRAMA HISSY

As opposition parties dug into their formal opposition to the Liberal government’s Emergencies Act, debates took an ugly turn in question period as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indirectly linked a Jewish MP to Nazi supporters.

 Comments directed to Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman were made during a heated exchange in which she compared his “positive, optimistic, hopeful vision of public life” in 2015 with recent negative comments made toward truck convoy supporters.

“Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas; they can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag. We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, to be able to get their lives back,” replied Trudeau.

CALLS TO END ALL RESTRICTIONS GROWING LOUDER

Even though politicians have done everything they can to stop the convoy protests, calls to end all restrictions and mandates continue to grow louder.

Politicians are likely to drop all restrictions before they’re able to end all the protests.

INDIAN POLITICIAN CALLS OUT TRUDEAU

The head of Foreign Affairs for the Bharatiya Janata Party – one of India’s two largest political bodies – has called out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for invoking the Emergencies Act to quash ongoing trucker convoy protests.

Dr. Vijay Chauthaiwale, who is a molecular biologist, blasted Trudeau’s hypocrisy on Tuesday, pointing to the fact that the prime minister supported ongoing protests in India in 2020.

“And this was (Justin Trudeau) when there were street protests in India ‘Canada will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protesters,’ Chatuhaiwale tweeted in response to an article about the Liberals pledging to freeze the bank accounts of protestors.

USE THE WORD FREEDOM, YOU'RE THE FAR RIGHT

   Mark Steyn:  Canadian truckers are such an obviously genuinely naturally "diverse" group that one would have thought the Canadian media's wholesale support for Jacinda Trudeau's libel of them as Nazi white supremacists would have been too insulting to the intelligence of even CBC viewers. The general vibe of what's happening isn't hard to discover: Convoy supporters play street hockey under the watchful gaze of a fully armed RCMP tactical unit, whose colleagues are busy preemptively destroying private property on private land.

   But physical lockdown seems to have inculcated in the citizenry a psychological lockdown that will be far harder to lift. So, on the CBC's Cross-Country Check-Up (a show once hosted by Rex Murphy), the word "freedom" is now suspect:

Why the word 'freedom' is such a useful rallying cry for protesters

The word has become common among far-right groups, experts say

IT'S NOT ABOUT HEALTH NOW, IT'S ABOUT SAVING FACE

Neil Oliver: World leaders are getting increasingly desperate over freedom convoy protests.

OTTAWA POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS

 Peter Sloly is no longer Ottawa’s chief of police.

Sloly and the board reached a “mutually agreed upon separation,” the chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board, Diane Deans, said at a special meeting on Tuesday.

His departure comes amid a storm of criticism over his force’s handling of the convoy protests that have paralyzed the city’s core for nearly three weeks.

POLICE HUG PROTESTORS AT COUTTS, ALBERTA

 COUTTS, Alta. — As the trucks and other vehicles rolled out, with horns blaring, Alberta RCMP officers shook hands and hugged the protesters who had paralyzed a United States border crossing for more than two weeks.

Protesters had been restricting access to the main Alberta border crossing in Coutts since Jan. 29 to rally against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and broader public health restrictions.

The protesters left voluntarily, Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesperson Gina Slaney told Reuters. The border has now reopened in both directions.

PM's INTOLERANCE OF UNACCEPTABLE VIEWS

Trudeau’s intolerance of “unacceptable views” clearly extends to members of the Official Opposition, but he would do well to open himself to the possibility that he is not infallible. The prime minister’s conviction that those who do not agree with him are irresponsible or motivated by an unworthy purpose means that he is undermining Parliament at a time when it most needs reinforcement.

 There is widespread recognition, even in the Liberal party, that the prime minister is finally reaping what he sowed during the last election campaign.

BLATANT LIES

 Ezra Levant discusses Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act

PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO AROUND

  Brian Lilley:  On Monday, just hours before invoking the Emergencies Act, Trudeau’s government wouldn’t rule out imposing more vaccine mandates — including on truckers crossing provincial borders — even as health officials across the country say it’s time for them to go. The Liberals, joined by the NDP, even voted down a motion that called on the government to deliver a plan and timeline for removing federal COVID restrictions and mandates.

This is how we ended up here.

An angry and fed-up public, an ineffective police response to a protest, and a federal government playing wedge politics with the pandemic.

TRUDEAU'S PROOF OF FAILURE

 OTTAWA – Federal opposition parties say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act is a “proof of failure” in dealing with convoy blockades across the country.

Trudeau spoke of his plan to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first time to premiers on a call Monday morning. Shortly after, leaders of many of Canada’s biggest provinces came out against the plan if it targeted their province.

DRAMATIC PM DECLARES A STATE OF EMERGENCY

Those who demanded or advised that Justin Trudeau declare a national emergency, which he did Monday, to deal with current protests do not appear to have actually read the federal Emergencies Act. If they have read Part II of the Act concerning a Public Order Emergency they apparently go straight to the “Orders and regulations” section. There for example they find that the federal government during a declared national emergency can prohibit “any public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.” Are there breaches of the peace in Ottawa or elsewhere? Yes! Prohibit them! Protests ended!  

   Section 3 of the Act defines a national emergency as “an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that … seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.”

AMBASSADOR BRIDGE RE-OPENED

 WINDSOR — North America’s busiest land border crossing connecting Canada and the United States reopened on Sunday, the Associated Press reported, after police cleared protesters who had been occupying the Ambassador Bridge for nearly six days fighting government pandemic measures that have hurt automobile industries on both sides of the border.

DEFLATING INSTITUTIONS WITH TOO MUCH POWER

   On Friday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a montage of Canadian and American officials berating the truckers and threatening all sorts of dire retribution should they fail to obey their masters. Carlson was right: the hysterical squeaking of Justin Trudeau, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the other political mannequins was pathetic—a sign of impotence, not strength.
   But impotence comes in long-term and short-term varieties. Long-term, I think Carlson is right. Officialdom’s response to the Freedom Convey is a desperate effort to put the genie of liberty back in the bottle. Ultimately, it will not work. But on the way to that failure there will be plenty of opportunities for the coercive power of the state to manifest itself.

ONTARIO LIFTING ALL COVID RESTRICTIONS BY END OF MARCH

 Ontario is about a month away from dropping all COVID-19 restrictions.

Dr. Kieran Moore, the province’s chief medical officer, said last week that he would be putting forward recommendations for a cautious and gradual return to normal.

It’s expected that barring any unforeseen incidents, like a new wave of infections threatening hospital capacity, Moore will recommend an end to all restrictions before March 31. The next step in reopening — allowing restaurants and other businesses to hit full capacity — will also be moved up a couple of days to this weekend instead of next Monday.

WHEN $187.5M ISN'T ENOUGH: VIA RAIL WANTS MORE BAILOUT MONEY

After laying off a third of its workforce over vaccine mandates and receiving $187.5 million in pandemic bailouts, VIA Rail is now asking the federal government for more taxpayers’ money,

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, management at the Crown corporation asked for millions more in funds to avoid having to make “drastic cuts” in the Summary Of The 2021-2025 Corporate Plan presented in the House of Commons.

“Without sufficient and timely funding VIA Rail would be obliged to make drastic cuts which is a significant business and reputational risk exacerbated by layoffs, significant restructuring costs including employment security and severance payments and start-up costs when the service resumes,” claimed company staff.

BERNIER SERVING FREEDOM PANCAKES

People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier handed out “freedom pancakes” Sunday morning as he continued his attempts to steer the truckers’ protest in the direction of his libertarian political party.

 Bernier posed for picture and shook hands with protesters on a frigid Sunday morning while calling on federal and provincial governments to immediately lift all vaccine mandates.

“We need to learn to live with the virus — and not in fear,” said Bernier, who called the mandates immoral, illegal and unconstitutional.

LOST FOR WORDS

VICTORIA — Bear Henry says they survived more than 70 days stuck in a camper van on a remote Vancouver Island mountain forest road with only a few days’ worth of canned beans, raw rice, cat food and melted snow.

Henry said Friday they’re about 30 kilograms lighter than when they left Victoria Nov. 27 to find a camp in the Fairy Creek area northwest of Victoria where people had been protesting old-growth logging.

Henry, 37, who is a two-spirit Indigenous person and uses gender-neutral pronouns, said they spent their days napping, daydreaming and trying to stay sane in their van, while hearing search helicopters on the other side of the mountain.

LOSING THE TRUST OF CANADIANS

According to the survey, governments saw a 10% drop in trust over the course of 2021-2022. Currently, only 22% of Canadians saw governments of all levels as trustworthy – down from 32% last year.

Meanwhile, traditional media continued to plummet as Canadians tuned out of legacy news sources. In 2022, only 35% of Canadians said they trusted traditional media, compared to 38% last year.

In 2022, Canadians also reported a striking decline of 13% when it came to how free they felt their country was. In 2020, 73% of Canadians said the country was performing well with regard to the core value of freedom, but in 2022 that number had shrunk to 60%.

COURAGE BEGETS COURAGE

The American people have also reached that enough-is-enough line. We are no longer standing in the shadows watching as the current administration destroys the country that we love. Instead, we are taking our country back and that includes showing up in massive numbers to participate in free and fair elections.

Business owners and entrepreneurs must get back to the core fundamentals of capitalism and refuse to allow the socialists to destroy our free enterprise system. No more handouts. Working to achieve the American dream is not a new concept.

Socialism is the snake that got into our house through radical politicians, but communism is the venomous bite that will destroy life as we know it. Communism begins with compliance. It’s the germ of control that grows to a plague of destruction.

THERE WAS NO GENOCIDE, PM

  This past summer came the sensational claim that 215 bodies had been found in a mass grave at Kamloops, British Columbia. These were, according to the claim, children who had somehow died under mysterious circumstances, or were even murdered and secretly buried, with the forced help of their fellow students – “some as young as six”.
  And what was the evidence supporting this claim? It was from people known as “knowledge keepers” who purportedly had a “special way of knowing” and a junior anthropologist who had used a portable radar device – with the “knowledge keepers” telling her where to look. There were no bodies, just “soil disturbances”. Despite the weakness of this evidence the media presented it to Canadians as proof of genocide.
   An example of this “special way of knowing” is this: one knowledge keeper declared that “in 1500 the Pope decreed that all non-Catholic children at residential schools should be put to death.” Never mind that there were no residential schools in 1500 in Canada, or that no Pope had ever made such a decree. That example says everything you need to know about her “way of knowing”.

At this point one would have expected a number of things to happen. In the first place, you would expect journalists to closely question this astounding claim, made on such incredibly flimsy evidence. Secondly, you would expect both government and church spokespeople to vigorously push back against such explosive and impossible statements, with the facts.

OPP ON YOUR DOORSTEP TO GUIDE YOUR THOUGHTS & ACTIONS

 This was a female Ontario Provincial Police officer letting Nadine know they had spotted her online political commentaries and dropped by to give her some help in how to proceed.

Nadine had no idea that musings or opinions on Facebook were being monitored by police or that they would actually send someone to her farm to guide her in how to think and try to encourage her on how to act if she decided to attend the Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill on Saturday.

The line certainly seems crossed when you have police responding to a home based on information found on social media or in chat groups, but that’s what happened. It’s creepy that police would veer away from criminal concerns and put resources into the political.

HOW WILL THE TRUCKER CONVOY STANDOFF END?

It’s Fake News Friday on the Candice Malcolm Show, and Candice is joined by the founder of Rebel News Ezra Levant.

Ezra has long been one of Canada’s foremost free speech advocates and one of the fiercest critics of the mainstream media (or as he calls it, the Media Party!)

Ezra and Candice talk about the structural flaws that make the media both out of touch and incapable of fairly covering the trucker convoy, PLUS, Ezra gives his prediction on how the convoy and ongoing stand-off will end, what it will mean for Canadians, and what will become of our bitter, angry and damaged Prime Minister.

BUTTS THREATENS TO SUE PETERSON

   Trudeau's former aid and longtime friend Gerry Butts says he has contacted his lawyers after a bout of words on Twitter with Dr. Jordan Peterson.
  The legal action comes after Peterson called Butts "corrupt," something that Butts says uses his "former public office dishonestly for personal gain."
  Butts, who was at that time the most senior staffer in Trudeau's inner circle, resigned as Trudeau's principal secretary amid allegations stemming from the SNC-Lavalin scandal. "At all times, I and those around me acted with integrity and a singular focus on the best interests of all Canadians," Butts said after resigning.

AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST CONVOY DESCENDS ON THE CAPITAL

 A huge crowd swarmed to Canberra as the anti-mandate Convoy To Canberra protest gains momentum in the nation's capital.

Last night traffic was brought to a standstill as cars, caravans, trucks and buses flooded into the city from all states.

The crowd today met at Commonwealth Park before starting the march to Parliament House where a range of speakers addressed the crowd.

18 WHEELERS & THE APOCALYPSE

   Rex Murphy:  You know the story we’ve been hearing from the best and the brightest — former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who alone have stared the horror of Ottawa in the face and called it for what it is: sedition, occupation, insurrection.

The questions emerging from the depths of the anguished souls of these gifted observers are dire: Can Canada survive? Does a country that includes among its citizenry a pack of diesel-burning Huns barrelling down the Trans-Canada Highway from the badlands of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba even deserve to survive?

We have been cautioned. This is the most tense collective moment in Canadian history since the last episode of “Reach for the Top.”

TRUCKERS TURN TO BITCOIN FOR FUNDRAISING

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says about half of the money being raised for protesters blockading Parliament Hill and several border crossings is coming from the United States, but an expert says attempting to stop the flow of cash is like playing a game of whack-a-mole.

An order recently approved by an Ontario court to freeze millions raised through GiveSendGo will be effective at least temporarily in stopping those funds flowing into organizers' hands, said anti-money laundering expert Matthew McGuire.

The order, obtained by the provincial government, prohibits not only the fundraising platform and organizers, but third-party payment processors and financial institutions, from disposing of or dealing with the millions raised. 

MEDICAL SCIENCE ON THE SIDE OF TRUCKERS

Medical science has proved lockdowns, community masking, social distancing and all the other mandates are useless and have caused enormous harm to every section of society except government bureaucrats working from home or those getting regular salaries- the laptop class. The power belongs to the people – not to our politicians, not to our bureaucrats, not to our corrupt main stream press … and not to our crime minister.

As a physician and a surgeon of more than 20 years experience, I can tell you that the m-RNA injection otherwise called the the covid vaccine is neither safe nor effective. It cannot stop infection. It cannot stop transmission. We have known all this for months. Stop all mandates now.

To my Trucker brothers and sisters – the medical science is behind you. Scientists and physicians from across the world stand in solidarity with you – and we support you, we salute you, we are completely on your side.

BLASTING THE ELITE CUPCAKE

Canadian prime minister ramps up criticism of the 'Freedom Convoy,' 'The Five' reacts

THERE'S LESS TO THIS LEADER THAN MEETS THE EYE

Video from 2020.  Justin Trudeau is a far cry from a statesman.

"WHATEVER IT TAKES"? THEN END YOUR VACCINE MANDATES

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office has indicated the government’s willingness to “respond with whatever it takes,” to bring the trucker convoy protests under control, confirming federal ministers and top Canadian officials are working with U.S. representatives to “resolve” the situation.

This comes as political pressure has been increasing across Canada and in the United States to see the anti-mandate and anti-government blockades end.

Trudeau held a series of late-night meetings on Thursday about the situation, including with key cabinet ministers and senior officials, and opposition party leaders, though no new measures were announced.

DEMOCRACY DEMANDS A FAIR HEARING FOR TRUCKERS

   The elasticity of what has been proclaimed as “science” has caused exhaustion, as well as frustration around the world. The science is evolving, and the world is adapting. Canada cannot afford to lag behind. Many countries in Europe — including Sweden, Denmark, the U.K., Norway, Ireland and Switzerland — are removing all mandates and restrictions. Saskatchewan and Alberta are moving in a similar direction, as are several U.S. states. There is an increasing inclination to learn to live with COVID-19 as an endemic like the annual flu, and return society to some degree of normalcy.
   Vaccinations are not the perfect solution that we were once led to believe. Many fully vaccinated and boosted individuals, including political leaders and several NHL players, have tested positive, usually with minor symptoms. The impact of COVID and its newest variants has been less severe for those fully vaccinated but there have been exceptions.
   The concerns protesters are expressing deserve respect from the government and not the prime minister’s dismissive comparison with demonstrations he has supported, such as those of Black Lives Matter. BLM protests in America erupted into violent criminal behaviour, arson and extensive damage to public and private property in many cities.